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A portrait that represents a nation.Related content
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I like that the shadow in the picture of Chairman Mao is in the opposite direction of the shadow in the actual photograph. Excellent!
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Your photograph has been featured in my journal
Existential Refinement Vol.38 [link]
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The really interesting thing about Mao's picture is that it is redone every single year. Each picture hangs for one year and is them replaced by a new one. I have no idea where the old ones go. I saw a lot of Chinese cites, towns, plane, train and bus stations, and never saw another picture of him as big as this one. BTW, Mao is still revered by some of the older people, but most Chinese now recognize the excesses of the Cultural Revolution he inspired, as well as the massive deaths due to starvation during that time. Mao started out with good ideas and noble intentions, but fanatics engender fanatics, and life became hell for millions of the people that survived. Nowadays, of course, it's all about making money, buying a car, and maybe even that house in the suburbs, with a golf club membership for the wealthy. it's a different place now.
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If a photo makes one think deeper rather than be dismissed at face value, then I believe that the photo served it's purpose.
A photo that leads to something more.
Thank you for all your comments. All of it.
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it seems that many foreign friends like our chairman mao....
and good shot...
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This is awesome. I love it. I can't think of a better shot I've seen in a while.
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oh sweet, that's a fricking huge portrait of Mao
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oh sweet, they're all fricking huge.
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Great shot, the picture's presence is very imposing like the man himself. Unfortunately very little people truly know Mao outside of the context of "red" vs "blue". A man who accomplished great things for his country and also committed some horrible mistakes. Unfortunately my friend most of the world still isn't ready to look at and examine Mao from a objective point of view and see him for what he really was, not a saint nor a devil, but just a man.
And congrats on the beautiful Olympic opening my friend.
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great picture, i really like the strong geometry in it
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you got the idea and tell the truth, I am an ABC but I know what you mean.
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Doesn't take long for people to whip out politics.
Lucky for me, I don't care too much about politics, and I can enjoy the picture for what it is, and art piece 
Well done, I love the 'surrealistic sense' that someone earlier mentioned.
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isn't that Mao Zedong? from the book Red Scarf Girl??
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Mao wasn't a fictional character, ya know...
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Lol. That made my day.
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a picture, representing the life of a whole nation... brilliant...
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refrain from politicizing it?
but the image content is political in nature
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Hmm.. Chairman Mao Zedong..
Brilliant picture. This picture is worth more than a thousand words.. But im not going to go into details. I love it.
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They will one day paint the world red...
Russia's old communism wasnt good
China's new comercialized communism is fully good..
I think they need to watch more Star Trek to get it right.
sad, But china has done wonderfull things too, like invent the compass, fireworks display... i just wish the conformity would end... as some of the planets population isnt human and have different outlook on life.
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Yay! Utopian commercialized communism with replicators FTW! XD The Federation is awesome.
It's nice to see another Star Trek fan around here.
It's also nice to see someone who also has a different outlook on life.
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Yes thanks
people need to look to the stars now, since the planet is getting crowded, instead of wars and stuff
Thanks
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Indeed it is. Have you read the Homeworld Legacies series by DeepChrome? It's better that many novels I've read (A lot,
Please excuse me for being excessively verbose. XD
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Nope I have not O.k
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A culture so alien to me, yet so undeniably in my blood.
Thank you for taking this picture. Congratulations. 
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I love the balance and repetition. Just for composition's sake, I would cut off the stairwell. Great photojournalism.
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It would have had to have been re-shot to preserve the square frame nature though to get rid of the stairwell, and keep with being unmanipulated.
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Oh, I never noticed how you used square framing. That's just incredible. I'll try and keep from politicizing, but a square just really fits now that you mention it.
On another note, do you ever crop your photos? That's dedication to journalism.
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Whoa, that's not my photo, I was just saying that's probably what the deviant is thinking
If I had taken the photo, I probably would have asked the guard why it wasn't aligned with the tunnel very well, haha.
[link] is close enough to this one to see that it's not just perspective, it really is off
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Oh, well thank you for replying with your insight! I don't pay attention very well.
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